EDITOR –
Millions of sardines are netted before any sea life can feed. Humans are gluttonous. More, more, more – even if too many fish have been caught and they begin to rot, they still want more. Fishing gut, dead fish and hooks are left littering our beaches.
Wildlife rehabilitation centres are flooding in with sea birds filled with hooks inside them, yet we continue to consume the oceans, litter, waste and kill. The main reason for sea birds coming into rehab centres is due to them being filled with hooks or being emaciated. We consume, consume and consume, finding excitement in gluttony.
It truly is amazing to watch a community come together, but the reasoning is sad. We bring our children down to the beach to see a mass murder of our oceans’ food, but won’t bring them down to clean the beaches of litter, hooks and line, teaching them what’s really important.
We call rehabilitation centres in a panic when animals are caught in line, expecting them to work miracles on the animals but won’t do anything to prevent it from happening in the first place?
Seeing these posts on Facebook, telling everyone where these fish are is sad. No animal can have its feed first or for too long as the humans are watching, they always watching, they networking, ready to grab when they don’t even need them. Our oceans are running out of fish, Google it. I could go on and on.
Loving wildlife so much and watching it slowly dying off, kills a piece of me every time.
If you do go down to the beach, please take a bag with you and pick up line, hooks and litter. If a sea bird is found call CROW on 031-462-1127.
Do not attempt to feed the bird, incase of hooks and if there is fishing line in the animals throat, sticking out the mouth to please not pull it out the mouth as there may be a hook attached.
– Carlyn Hattingh
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